Andrew Cuomo Is Re-elected Governor of New York

Gov. Andrew Cuomo won a second term on Tuesday by easily dispatching a challenge from Republican Rob Astorino, becoming the first Democratic governor since his father, Mario Cuomo, to win re-election in the nation’s third-largest state.

CBS2’s Marcia Kramer was at Cuomo’s headquarters in Times Square Tuesday night where the excitement was building before the results were announced, but Cuomo wasn’t counting his chickens before they hatched.

The 56-year-old Cuomo will begin his second term with a long list of challenges, including the implementation of a new medical marijuana law, a decision on whether to allow fracking for natural gas and the selection of up to four new casino operators upstate.